The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-10

SOuIucIn OQ1O ldJclE anu the OnlO ElV6E Is
rising slowly but surely.
THERE was intense excitement on the
London Stock Exchange on the afternoon
of the Sd and at the close of the market a
panicky feeling prevailed. The unfavora-
BILE state Of the market was due chiefly TO
| the reports of heavy failures in the Paris
Bourse
A PITTSBURGH, Pa, telegram said that
about $50 men employed at the Spearman,
Douglous & Mable furnaces had struck for
an advance in wages of twenty-five cents
per day. The furnaces had all been left in
good condition and the men appeared de-
termined and hopeful Of getting what they
asked for.
De LEON, recently convicted of kidnapping
and sending women to Panama for immoral
purposes, was sentenced to fifteen years
Imprisonment at New York
THE Limerick Qreland) municipal coun-
Gil has refused to celebrate the Queens
jubilee on the ground that the Queen has
visited ireland only twice, and never as
sisted Irish charities.
IT was recently telegraphed that gener-
al strike would be ordered of the Reading
railroad coal handlers at Port Richmond.
The committee from the New York strikers
had visited the coal handlers there, and
from statements made by the men, it is ex-
pected that uniform movement will be in
augurated along the entire line and at all
the mines.
THERE were great fears of food at Gin
cinnati on the night of the Sd. The river
was rising two inches an hour.
INTELLIGENCE reached Belvedere, n. j.,
on the Sd by messengers from Pahaquarry
township, Of the formation of an immense
ice gorge in the Delaware river near Shaw
nee, Pa, above the Delaware water gap.
The ice piling up to the height Of fifty feet
the water had been forced out of its natural
course and had overhowed the lowlands.
Dwelling houses were submerged.
A DISPATCH from Carthage, Tenn, of the
Sd said that Chestnut Mound, ten miles
above there, had been visited by water
spout, which carried death and destruction
in its wake and almost ruined that section
of the country.
LATE intelligence from st. Johns, Ariz..
stated that John and Henry Brown and
''Red" Murphy, the remainder of the gang
of train wreckers, had been captured and
lodged in jail.
A SPECIAL from Raleigh, Y. c., stated that
DR.. Wilcox, leading Republican, and John
Baker, leading Democrat. recently met
by the campaign last fall, by stepping off
fifteen PAGES and shooting at one another.
Baker was mortally wounded.
TALBOT, who recently stole Fanny Dav
exports diamonds, valued at s35, 600, from
hotel in Memphis, Tenn, was captured in
Kansas City, Mo.
A SCHOOL house at ST. Emon:que, near
Montreal, Can, was destroyed by fire the
in it persisted in the flames.
ARGENT Pittsburgh, Pa, dispatch stated
that Detectives Hohne and Halligan, of
Cleveland, left there, having in charge
Henry McMunn, charged with completely
in an extensive fur robbery. When the
train reached Alliance five men got on
board and they made concerted attack on
the detectives with the view of rescuing
the prisoner. A desperate fight ensued,
and one of the detectives was fatally shot
and the other wounded. Some of the assall-
ants were also wounded.
A RECENT dispatch from Pittsburgh, Pa,
stated that five coal firms along the Monon-
gahela river had conceded the demands of
their employees and were in active opera
ton.
WILLIAM CoMsTOCK, the oldest convict in
lhC W. L y POhANSAiNioASs NiSN IL
Gently. He was received at the prison in
1858 on life sentence for murder. He killed
his father and mother, cut out their hearts
and ate them.
THE strike at New York was still grow
ing on the 4th, the coal cart drivers and
shovelers along the Gowanus canal having
struck
a LONDON cablegram lately said that even
if there should be no war between France
and Germany. the incidents which had al
ready happened in consequence of the ac-
tive rumors of war have created such
marked feeling of distrust throughout the
country and so paralyzed every thing in the
way of commerce, industrial and financial
enterprises that it would take France at
least two years to recover the shock hich
she had already received.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, in reply to a
toast at the annual banquet of the Amherst
Alumni Association the other night, de-
nounced the Knights of Labor.
News from Fargo, Oak, stated that the
blizzard on the 4th between that city and
jamestown was the worst ever experienced,
the thermometer ranging twenty-five to
thirty degrees below zero. A train from
the east with four engines attached was I'm,
able to work its way through the snow
drifts, and numerous settlers were reported
lost on the prairie.